On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 06:54:17PM +0100, John Latham wrote:
>       * FvwmTaskBar can be set to show only windows on the current desktop,
>       (and iconised ones), which is less cluttered if you organise your
>       desktops into `task' activities.
> 
I don't use a task bar so that's not relevant for my setup.

>       * I use have it so that each desktop is associated with a directory of
>       my filestore, so everything run from the menus there already has that
>       directory as CWD. (I could say how this is done if you would like.)
> 
Clever, but I'm not convinced my system is that big and complex.

>       * Pages are used as more desk space within each `task', e.g. I might
>       have a web browser open on the Java API in the page next to the one I
>       am writing code in:  I can just slide between the two with either the
>       mouse or shortcuts.
> 
Now that *does* make some sense for me, I might well set things up so
the mouse will flip me from one page to another on a Desktop, I can
see that would be useful.

-- 
Chris Green

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